Percona XtraBackup 1.4

Version 1.4 fixes problems related to incremental backups. If you do incremental backups, it’s strongly recommended that you upgrade to this release.

Functionality Added or Changed

Incremental backups have changed and now allow the restoration of full backups containing certain rollback transactions that previously caused problems. Please see Preparing the Backups and the --apply-log-onlyoption. (From innobackupex, the --redo-only option should be used).Â (Yasufumi Kinoshita)

The XtraBackup Test Suite was implemented and is now a standard part of each distribution. (Aleksandr Kuzminsky)

Other New Features:

The --prepareoption now reports xtrabackup_binlog_pos_innodb if the information exists. (Yasufumi Kinoshita)

When --prepare is used to restore a partical backup, the data dictionary is now cleaned and contains only tables that exist in the backup. (Yasufumi Kinoshita))

The --tableoption was extended to accept several regular expression arguments, separated by commas. (Yasufumi Kinoshita)

About Fred Linhoss

Fred is a former Percona employee. Fred has a long history in software development and has held positions in both programming and technical management. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

Comments

Is there any significance to the xtrabackup_5x binary (for use with regular InnoDB) being renamed from xtrabackup_50 to xtrabackup_51 in 1.4? In other words, is it still okay to use xtrabackup_51 with MySQL 5.0.x?

when i use the xtrabackup 1.4 to backup the mysql 5.1.37 ï¼ˆbuilt-in) error happen as fllow: xtrabackup: error while loading shared libraries: requires glibc 2.5 or later dynamic linker innobackupex-1.5.1: fatal error: no ‘mysqld’ group in MySQL options innobackupex-1.5.1: fatal error: OR no ‘datadir’ option in group ‘mysqld’ in MySQL options

Does xtrabackup performs LIVE incremental backup as well? Is -no-lock option works with xtrabackup? I know that it works with innobackupex script but I am not sure if we can perform LIVE incremental backup? Please advise.